Teaching games development: CPD with a plot twistTechPathways’ latest depth course offers face-to-face practical sessions and industry insight but also follow-up case studies to see the difference in the classroom Credit: CC #WOCinTech Chat In secondary classrooms, teachers face a challenge of how to meet the national curriculum requirements that “All pupils must have the [...]

Interview: Bruce Waskett, head of UX at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity DESCRIBE YOUR JOB It’s rather like being a circus ringmaster trying to understand what makes people happy and able to enjoy the show. Or possibly a performing seal.   I run the User Experience (UX) department for Great Ormond Street Charity and [...]

Careers talks make a difference – in unexpected waysWhat impact do careers talks have on GSCE students? You might be surprised! Credit: CC #WOCinTech Chat Connecting young people to the world of work through careers talks is generally assumed to result in greater knowledge about career paths but could it even change attitudes to education [...]

What's it like to work at IBM? IBM is a multi-national technology business employing around 20,000 people in the UK. At the annual Robo Challenge event, in which schools compete in a variety of programming challenges, we caught up with three IBM employees volunteering with school students to find out more about what they do [...]

Interview: Kim Warren, IT Consultant at DMW Group   DESCRIBE YOUR JOB..... I work as an IT consultant. Generally, businesses or organisations get IT consultants in to help them to plan or audit their IT strategy, or to implement major time-limited IT transformation programmes. It’s commonly confused with IT support, but we’re not the people [...]

Interview: Marius Rubin, Technical Director at DMW Group   DESCRIBE YOUR JOB…. I am the technical director at DMW Group, a technology consulting firm based in London. We work with large public/private sector organisations to solve difficult technology challenges. I work as an advisor and solution architect for my clients. This can include everything from [...]

Podcast with Mark MartinFor TechPathways’ first foray into podcasting we piggybacked onto the London Connected Learning Centre podcast, hosted by the CLC’s co-director Sarah Horrocks and with special guest Mark Martin. Mark is perhaps better known to his 27,000 followers on Twitter as @urban-teacher; he’s also the co-founder of UK Black Tech, winner of the [...]

Interview: Dr Holly Powell-Jones, Founder of Online Media Law UK DESCRIBE YOUR JOB… My main focus is Online Media Law; I run my own business teaching social media law and ethics in secondary schools. Lots of e-safety stuff fails to cover UK communication laws and how they apply to young people’s digital lives, so that’s [...]

Welcome to TechPathways London Welcome to TechPathways London, a new programme of free professional development for educators. If you are based in London and work with young people aged 11-24 then this programme is for you. The aim of TechPathways London is to bridge the gap between the digital skills acquired in education and those [...]